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Ernest John Lee

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Given name
Ernest John
Family name
Lee
Service number
2434
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
56th Battalion (Infantry)
Service (legacy)
AIF
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Western Front
Fate
DOW 10.04.18
Veteran Notes/Bio

1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as, "Ernest John. KIA France 1918(B)".

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 2434; POB: Bungendore: POE: Goulburn NSW; NOK: Father: Hugh Lee, Bungendore.         

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 56 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917); Age: 20 6/12; Occupation: Labourer; DOE: 22.2.1916; Embarked: 30.09.1916. Sydney. HMAT Aeneas. A60.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 56 Battalion; DOE: 26.02.1916; DOW 10.04.1918.Buried Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France.

5. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis 2007 ISBN: 978-1-74027-487-6

6. See AWM Photograph P09678.001: Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions noted below at Cyril Smith 2485 and comments by PJH 03.04.15

7. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas’ Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW and on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 162.

8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street signs in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

9 .Last updated December 2015.

Note: 1. Ernest John Lee # Depot who was born in Bungendore, enlisted in Sale, Victoria. His NOK was his Father: Hewrman Lee of Bairnsdale, Victoria. He is not considered to be the Digger commemorated on the Bungendore Memorial.                                                                       

Note: Pte Arthur Roy Abbott 3208.17 Battalion DOW. Not listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) but listed Bygone Queanbeyan as, "Arthur Roy. KIA Mons, St Quentin 8.9.1918 (B)".
AWM pdf file completed by his Uncle states:

"he enlisted at the age of 17 years and 9 months. Embarked 23.12.1915 SS Suevic. Served in Egypt with first Australian troops for France and served up til 8 weeks to the signing of the Armistice. Wallace Douglas Lee Cousin killed 9.10.17 and Ernest John Lee Cousin killed 10.04.18." (Both the Cousins are commemorated on the Bungendore Memorial).
Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer 11.04.1919 reported Arthur Roy Abbott 17 Bn was KIA 1918. He was the grandson of the much esteemed resident of Bungendore Mrs John Dunlop….”

Commemorated Newton Superior Public School ROH WW1.

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